Ok.. well its now a while since I posted that comment but Im VERY happy to say that Im done :) It was a lot more work than I thought it would be, probably six or seven 10hr days to completely erect the frame work, treat the already treated wood, pin on the welded wire mesh and then.. eventually.. let the cats out for a play :)
I borrowed the works van for a day and headed off to B&Q to grab all the wood & fixings I would need. One thing I will say about B&Q is that when they say "they will cut any wood for you" what they actually mean is any wood that hasnt been treated.
Might not seem a big difference, but when you've just lugged 20x 3m long beams, 10x 3m posts and 4x huge 4.8m posts across the superstore only to be told .. "sorry sir, we cant cut pretreated wood as we would then be selling it as untreated". Kinda takes the... (rude word).
Anyways.. moan over :)
I went for hot dip galvanised welded wire mesh, sourced from ebay. Ended up using 30m of 6ft wide 1" x 1" mesh and 20m of 2ft wide 1" x 1" mesh. I figured this would be stronger than chicken wire / nylon mesh, and it definately appears to be so.
The enclosure has two gates on it. Both of them are spring loaded (top and bottom) to ensure the gate always closes, and in that respect it does it admirably :D
I let Storvenn and Loki out in it last night and it took them a little while to become confident. What was their 'whole world' (our house) suddenly looked very small to them I bet, but things were quickly forgotten once they discovered "FLIES!!!!"
Both appear to love chasing em down and 'clapping' them out of the air with both paws!
No furniture has been put in there yet, but we have plans to have a ledge under the kitchen window so they can come out of the house that way in the cooler months, rather than we keep the door open all day.
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